Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 AUSTIN, Texas - The St. Edward's baseball team dropped both ends of a doubleheader to long-time rival Incarnate Word Friday afternoon at Lucian-Hamilton Field. Incarnate Word rallied late in the first game for a 5-4 victory and took the second game with a 5-2 win.

Game 1: St. Edward's (17-15) opened the scoring in the first inning when Dylan Schuch (Senior, Austin, Texas) reached base on a one-out walk. Adam Shank (Junior, Sugar Land, Texas) calmly stepped and turned around the first pitch he saw for a two-run home run off the net in right field.

Incarnate Word (21-12) would tie the score in the third inning plating two unearned runs with two outs.

The Cardinals took the lead in the fourth inning when Jackson Woodruff led off with a double off of the wall in dead center. Matt Flores laid down a bunt which Hilltopper starting pitcher Tyler Harris (Junior, Houston, Texas) fielded. His throw to third base went into left field and Woodruff scored.

Taylor Johnson (Sophomore, Dripping Springs, Texas) led off the Hilltopper bottom of the fourth with a double off of the glove of the ranging Cardinal shortstop. Johnson would advance to third on a sacrifice bunt and hustled in to score on a wild pitch by Cardinal starting pitcher Kirk Jewasko.

St. Edward's would take the lead in the fifth inning when they loaded up the bases with one out. Johnson came through with an RBI-single through the left side. Jewasko would come back and strike out the next two batters to leave the bases loaded.

In the sixth inning, pinch hitter Leroy Urbina reach base on a single. After a strikeout, Derrick Walls reached on a walk from reliever Patrick Scholl (Junior, Austin, Texas). Brian Shorkey (Junior, Pearland Texas) came onto pitch after that. A passed ball would advance each runner a base. Pinch hitter Brandon Clark then doubled past a diving Eric Morgan (Senior, Salt Lake City, Utah) in left field to plate both runners.

In the bottom of the seventh inning, St. Edward's would get runners at first and second but Elroy Urbina came onto pitch and got Johnson to ground into a double play to end the game.

Jewasko (8-1) picked up the victory, allowing four runs on eight hits, while walking five and striking out eight batters in 6.1 innings of work. Urbina picked up his sixth save of the season.

Scholl (0-1) suffered his first loss of the season, allowing two runs (one earned) off of two hits in 1.1 innings of work.

Shank finished 4-for-4 with a run scored and two RBI. Johnson was 2-for-4 with a run scored and a RBI.

Game 2: Incarnate Word opened the scoring in game two in the second inning. Hector Flores led off the inning against Hilltoper starting pitcher Stephen Johnson (Sophomore, Boulder, Colo.) with a single. Steven Vidaurri followed with a wind-aided two-run homer that barely cleared the fence in left field for a 2-0 Cardinal lead.

The Cardinals would add two more runs in the fifth inning on RBI-singles by Mike De La Rosa and Clark.

St. Edward's would finally break through in the bottom of the fifth when Will McCaleb reached on a one-out walk. He advanced on a wild pitch and came in to score on an RBI-single by Colin Elmore (Junior, Dallas, Texas).

The Hilltoppers would score another run in the seventh inning when Rylan Patel (Freshman, Colleyville, Texas) singled to lead off the inning and eventually scored on a single by McCaleb.

Incarnate Word would add an insurance run in the top of the ninth on a home run by Vidaurri and Urbina would come in a pick up his second save of the afternoon setting the Hilltoppers down in order in the bottom of the ninth.

Jorge Guarneros (6-1) picked up the victory, allowing two runs on five hits, while walking two and striking out eight batters.

Stephen Johnson (4-3) suffered the loss, allowing four runs on eight hits, while walking three batters in 4.2 innings of work. Matt Anderson (Junior, Houston, Texas) came on in relief and pitched well. The righthander allowed just one run on three hits, while walking one and striking out three batters in 4.1 innings. He also had two pickoffs.

Patel was the only Hilltoper with multiple hits as he went 2-for-4 with a runs scored.

The two teams will play the third and final game of the series on Saturday. First pitch is set for 1 p.m. at Sullivan Field in San Antonio, Texas.